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Trametes versicolor (L.) Pilát, 1939 (Turkeytail)

Notes (MWS)

This is our commonest bracket fungus. It grows on stumps and fallen wood of a variety of broadleaves and even conifers. It is very variable in colour from almost white to charcoal black, by way of various shades of grey, brown, reddish and yellowish, often the same fruitbody having concentric zones of different colours. The fruitbodies of a single colony are very similar which has lead to speculation about multiple species being involved.

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon	Summary	Date	Vice-county	Country
Trametes versicolor	Fruitbody	10 October 2004	West Kent	England	4
Trametes versicolor	Fruitbody	3 February 1999	Berks	England		2
Trametes versicolor	Fruitbody	3 February 1999	Berks	England		9	4
Trametes versicolor	Fruitbody	24 October 1973	(Yorks)	England	1

Suggested Literature

Trametes versicolor may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)

BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

POLYPORALES
(polypores)

POLYPORACEAE
(a family of polypores)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Trametes versicolor is associated with:

fruitbody	Broadleaved trees and shrubs	fruitbody parasitises live branch	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Broadleaved trees and shrubs	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Pinopsida - conifers	fruitbody parasitises live	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Picea - spruces (Pinaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Pinus - pines (Pinaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Broadleaved trees and shrubs	fruitbody is saprobic on dead wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Broadleaved trees and shrubs	fruitbody is saprobic on dead branch	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Broadleaved trees and shrubs	fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Pinopsida - conifers	fruitbody is saprobic on dead wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Picea - spruces (Pinaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Pinus - pines (Pinaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Trees - Broadleaved And Coniferous Trees	fruitbody is saprobic on worked wood	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Trametes versicolor:

basidiome (dead, decayed)	dead, decayed basidiome is decayed by fruitbody	Clitopilus hobsonii - a toadstool (Agaricales: Entolomataceae)	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
basidiome	basidiome is food source of plasmodium	Badhamia utricularis - a slime mould (Physarales: Physaraceae)	Ing, B., 1999
bracket (old)	old bracket is parasitised by subiculate perithecium	Hypomyces aurantius - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae)	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
bracket (old)	old bracket is parasitised by Cladobotryum anamorph	Hypomyces aurantius - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae)	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
bracket	bracket is parasitised by Cladobotryum anamorph	Hypomyces rosellus - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae)	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
bracket	bracket is parasitised by subiculate perithecium	Hypomyces rosellus - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae)	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
bracket	bracket is decayed by superficial, scattered or gregarious perithecium	Nectria peziza - a pyrenomycete (Hypocreales: Nectriaceae)	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
fruitbody (dying)	dying fruitbody is decayed by fruitbody	Entoloma parasiticum - a toadstool (Agaricales: Entolomataceae)	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	fruitbody is parasitised by perithecium	Melanospora lagenaria - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Ceratostomataceae)	Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998

Trametes versicolor may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)

POLYPORALES
(polypores)

POLYPORACEAE
(a family of polypores)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998	Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1999	The Myxomycetes of Britain and Ireland
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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